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"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."
"My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while."
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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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